Dan Williams and Syd Novel

On his way to work on a Monday morning, Wally Williams witnesses armed men attempting to break into his nephew, Dan’s, machine shop, and his day goes downhill from there. Dan and his faithful dog, Syd, plan to spend the day riding the fence line on the ranch unaware that ten heavily armed men bent on revenge will invade the property gunning for...

Death and the Devil’s Henchmen Description

“Death and the Devil’s Henchmen” is the fourth novel in the Dan Williams and Syd mystery series.

Suspicious-acting men appear claiming to be lawyers with an inheritance for Dan from relatives back east. The trouble is, Dan has no relatives on the east coast. Meanwhile, a local rancher turns up dead at his...

A dead congressman lives a double life, one of which leads to Dan’s past.

Dan and Wally, led by Syd, find a man hanging in a tree on a rural stretch of road. This story takes the team on a wild ride that eventually leads back to Dan’s door. Who is this guy? Why is he dead? And how the heck does it have anything to do with Dan, who swears he’s...

A troubled teenager leaves home in West Texas and takes to the road. He soon finds that he gets off on the thrill of confrontation and killing. Dan, Wally and Syd are on a trip to deliver some equipment to an observatory in Arizona. The paths of these two worlds cross, leading to a game of cat and mouse where the role of mouse changes hands....

Dan Williams has built an idyllic life in the remote hills near San Jose, CA. When a frantic call from a neighbor’s wife comes, Dan and his uncles are shocked to find their neighbor dead in his workshop. Suspicion falls on Dan when his bloody hammer turns up at the scene. Meanwhile, two mysterious strangers seem to be playing a game of cat and...